Teacher’s Techniques In Teaching English During Pandemic Era At SMKN 1 Banjarmasin

Abstract

The changes of the teaching procedures because of the outbreak of corona virus require the teachers to set an online teaching and learning process. In this new situation, this research aims to discover the techniques of teaching English online used by the teacher during covid-19 pandemic at SMK Negeri 1 Banjarmasin. The researcher used a qualitative approach with a descriptive method. The techniques of data collection used in this research were observation which was done through WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams, interview with an English teacher and questionnaire that was distributed using Google Form to the students of XA Multimedia, XIA Multimedia and XIIA TKJ from SMKN 1 Banjarmasin. The researcher found the platforms that are used in teaching English online were WhatsApp group and Microsoft Teams. And the techniques that are used in those platforms are online discussion, substitution drill, game, and question and answer. In the pre-activities, the teacher usually interact with the students by asking some questions or asking the students to discuss to stimulate their background knowledge whether in WhatsApp group or in video conference using Microsoft Teams app. In while-activity, she used substitution drill when they were having video conference, or played game where the students not only learn to apply the correct pattern but also to make the students learn from making mistakes. In closing, the teacher only repeated her explanation briefly about the topic.